Carriage of multiresistant Streptococcus pneumoniae among children attending day-care centres in the Stockholm area

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 555-558

  Christenson, Brith ^a   Sylvan, Staffan P E ^a   Noreen, Britt ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; KINDERGARTEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NASOPHARYNX; PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0031447371     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365549709035893     Document Type: Article

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